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Technology @lemmy.world Acid @startrek.website 1y ago

Gamers nexus on LTT

Pretty damning review.

Linus Tech Tips (Unofficial) @discuss.online jgrim of Sublinks @discuss.online 1y ago

The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility

The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility

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LTT claims to be hitting the brakes and asking itself how to proceed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cTpTMl8kFY
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741
  
  This came out around the same time that was likely being filmed.
  
  JTFC... It's starting to seem like boycotting YouTube entirely is the only option anymore. If Google wasn't bad enough, it feels like everyone that gets big has entire warehouses full of closets full of skeletons. And when they get exposed it rarely puts a dent in their fan base or bottom line.
  
  If that went down they way they said, that's ugly af.
  
  Of course, it's hard to confirm any of this unless other employees want to get fired for talking about it.
  
  3 tweets, 2 Instagram posts, and 2 TikToks minimum per day
  
  fuck me, i gotta switch my job if that's considered incredible
  
  Edit:
  
  I was told I was chunky, fat, ugly, stupid. I was called "retarded" I was called a "removed"
  
  Okay if there is any proof of that, it might bring down the whole company
  
  Presumably they have to be good/generate interactions.
  
  She was replaced by a team of 4
  
  Also Here's Colin who left the company in 2022 on good terms
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=0cTpTMl8kFY
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
  
  Videos pull up but nothing plays. Both in firefox and chrome.
- seems a nice response

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